For those of you wondering why I haven’t posted about my progress on the new album lately… I decided to get a new computer recently. The one I had was pretty fast, but not quite powerful enough to do everything I wanted to do on my songs. So I got a newer, faster one. I’m [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Recording'
This is not good.
March 26, 2009
Experiencing technical problems
March 3, 2009
On Friday, I thought it was a good time to finally upgrade Pro Tools from 7.4 to 8.0. 8 has some cool new plug-ins and it seemed like as good a time as any to go for it. Or so I thought. I haven’t been able to get any work done since Friday. Upgrading PT [...]
Finally have the drums all recorded
January 19, 2009
Went back down to Chris Fisher’s studio in Coxsackie on Sunday, this time to track drums with John Brodeur for the last two songs for this album. I always enjoyed John’s songwriting and singing with his various bands (The Suggestions, Maggie Mayday, Hector On Stilts, Five Alpha Beatdown, etc.), but then I found out he [...]
Phil Taylor guest vocals and a couple new songs
January 12, 2009
This past weekend was a whirlwind of productivity! My buddy Phil Taylor (from Future Leaders of the World/Machina) was going to be around upstate NY for a few weeks. I asked if he’d be up for lending his vocals to a song for my upcoming CD. I thought he’d sound great on “Status Quo”, so [...]
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December 24, 2008
Got bass done on Without You last night, after much frustration with Pro Tools. To start out, I went to grab the bass track from my demo session, as I’ve been doing, to import it into the new session as a guide to play along with so I would know how I wanted the part [...]
And another
December 23, 2008
Got bass done on “Status Quo” last night. That’s 8 bass tracks done now. With any luck I’ll get the other two done this week. I’d always “heard” and expected to have a guitar solo in this song, so I left a “space” in the song for one all along while demoing it. I spent [...]
“Bass”-ically getting stuff done
December 22, 2008
So it was a snowy weekend in Albany. I think we got nearly a foot and a half over the last 3 days. Not good for stuff like playing shows (The Velmas had to cancel our show on Friday), but great for stuff like staying home and recording, luckily. Also lucky was the fact that [...]
More progress and Twitter
December 9, 2008
As of today, the 10 drum tracks I’ve got recorded so far are all comped and the songs are ready for more tracking. Still waiting on one more drummer to track the last 2 songs, though. But at least I can start on the bass guitar parts in earnest now, since the drum parts under [...]
Some more drums comped and another bass track
November 12, 2008
Over the last few days, I’ve been putting together some more of the final drum comps so I can get to work on the bass guitar, and then the rest of the instruments for those songs. Since we kept 3 or 4 full runs through each song, I had a lot of options, which is [...]
Thoughts on recording guitar
October 21, 2008
So, I’ve been trying to figure out how I’m gonna do the guitars for this here thing. Ideally, I’d record a mic’d up amp for all the guitars. Unfortunately, that also means having space for an amp and a mic stand to be set up for an extended period of time for consistent sounds between [...]